Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said his "greatest burden" was to have to order troops into "danger...to where their lives are threatened, to where their lives are taken." He later expanded that, noting the continued captivity of hostages in the Middle East...
There is probably some danger in looking to a situation comedy for serious cultural messages, but Alex's behavior struck me as pretty realistic. It has become standard in this nation for us to judge intelligence--an extremely subjective thing--on a very objective and structural scale of grades, standardized test scores and academic honors...
...crowd has gathered at Fenway Park. More people than were in line for playoff tickets. How much danger is the sacred diamond in? I shudder to think. Let's just say that a van marked "Libyan Terrorist Squad" is parked on Lansdowne Street...
Relief organizations have been struggling to fill the gap, but with limited success and under considerable danger. Miami-based Southern Air Transport is under contract to the U.N. to fly in maize from Uganda. The S.P.L.A. has vowed to shoot relief planes out of the sky. In October the first planeload of maize actually made it into Juba. Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This...
...theme of children dealing with a parent's death is timeless in literature, but in danger of being rendered trite through overuse. In The Letter Left to Me, Joseph McElroy avoids cliches by developing this theme in a unique and effective manner. The novel centers on letter from a father, written a few years before his death, to his teen-aged son. McElroy's choice of plot saves his novel from becoming another repetitive reflection on dealing with death...